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TechEd crystalizes Microsoft's BYOD management strategy
Microsoft's TechEd North America conference, which was held this week in New Orleans, provided a first glimpse of the architecture that Microsoft shops should use to manage employee personal devices for work duties, an emerging IT trend called bring your own device (BYOD).
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ICANN gives Amazon approval in top-level domain race
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has published a list of the first 27 generic top-level domains (gTLDs) to have passed its Initial Evaluation, with Amazon scoring some early wins.
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Outlook.com given security boost by Microsoft
Outlook.com, the new webmail service that Microsoft is previewing and that will replace Hotmail, has gained security boosts against phishing and spam.
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Linux Foundation introduces Secure Boot workaround
The Linux Foundation has introduced a possible way that smaller Linux distributions can be run on machines using UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) technology.
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Hackers compromise Adobe server to digitally sign malicious files
Adobe plans to revoke a code-signing certificate after hackers compromised one of the company's internal servers and used it to digitally sign two malicious utilities.
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GoDaddy: Outage caused by corrupted router tables, not Anonymous
Corrupted router tables, not malicious protesters, were the culprits behind Monday's widespread outage of GoDaddy's Internet registrar and hosting services, the company reported.
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GoDaddy back online following Anonymous attack
GoDaddy restored some services yesterday as the company battled online attacks that severely impacted its hosting and domain-name registration operations.
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Botnet or human? Black Lotus analyses behaviour to block DDoS attacks
Black Lotus is pulling the wraps of a distributed denial-of-service-mitigation service that uses behavioral factors to pick up on low-volume botnet attacks that nevertheless can cripple Web servers.
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Swiss Army knives to lose USB drive security features
Swiss Army knife firm Victorinox has pulled the plug on the security software used by its combined knife-and-USB stick products and has advised customers to back up their data by 15 September.
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The Registry Hub to act as proxy for top-level domains
A new top level domain (TLD) service has launched, promising to be a technical, legal and commercial proxy between registrars and registries that have applied to run new TLDs such as .cloud and .music.
